Special Guest Speaker at Worldwide Campus Commencement

U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Dana H. Born to Speak at Embry-Riddle Worldwide Campus Commencement

Daytona Beach, Fla., April 23, 2010 – Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University – Worldwide Campus will hold a commencement ceremony for 385 students on Saturday, May 8, at 9 a.m. in the ICI Center of the university’s Daytona Beach Campus. Following the ceremony, a reception will be held at the Jack R. Hunt Student Center on the Daytona Beach Campus.

The commencement guest speaker is U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Dana H. Born, dean of the faculty at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. She commands the 700-member dean of faculty mission element and oversees the annual design and instruction of more than 500 undergraduate courses for 4,000 cadets in 32 academic disciplines.

“Our military and civilian students alike will be inspired by her distinguished Air Force career,” said Martin Smith, executive vice president, Worldwide Campus.

“General Born has a strong commitment to education and military service,” said John Watret, Ph.D., associate vice president and chief academic officer, Worldwide Campus. “Her years of dedication and progressive academic leadership have made a significant contribution to the Air Force Academy. We are honored to have her as a speaker.”

Gen. Born graduated with distinction from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1983 with a degree in behavioral sciences. She completed master’s degrees in experimental and research psychology, and was first assigned to the Occupational Measurement Center as a job analyst. Following her tours as an exchange officer with the Royal Australian Air Force and assistant professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy, she completed her Ph.D. in industrial and organizational psychology from Pennsylvania State University.

Gen. Born’s staff assignments include assistant director for recruiting research and analysis in the Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Management Policy, aide to the Secretary of the Air Force, and deputy chief of the Personnel Issues Team in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel. She commanded the 11th Mission Support Squadron at Bolling Air Force Base, Washington D.C., providing education, training, and family support to service members in the Washington area and around the world. Prior to her current assignment, she was a permanent professor and head of the U.S. Air Force Academy’s Behavioral Sciences and Leadership Department.

The Worldwide Campus began in 1970 as a branch of Embry-Riddle’s Daytona Beach Campus at Ft. Rucker, Ala., with 20 students, primarily military working adults. Since then, the program has become one of the nation’s largest off-campus, regionally accredited colleges, with over 45,000 alumni. It educates more than 27,000 students annually through classroom, online, or hybrid undergraduate and graduate degree and certificate programs.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the world’s largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, offers more than 30 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in its colleges of Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Engineering. Embry-Riddle educates students at residential campuses in Daytona Beach, Fla., and Prescott, Ariz., through the Worldwide Campus at more than 170 campus centers in the United States, Europe, Asia, Canada, and the Middle East, and through online learning. For more information, visit www.embryriddle.edu.

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